78 RPMs and Cylinder Recordings
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Okeh 4146... Recorded in April of 1920.
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Okeh 4146... Recorded in May of 1920. (From the musical comedy "Mary")
Topics: 78rpm, popular, big band, jazz, 1920s, Bill from Ellerslie's record collection
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Columbia A2809... Recorded on September 13, 1919
Topics: 78rpm, popular, ragtime, 1910s, Bill from Ellerslie's record collection
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Okeh 4384... Recorded in June of 1921. Captain Pat Conway, conductor
Topics: 78rpm, popular, 1920s, Bill from Ellerslie's record collection
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Okeh 4384... Recorded in June of 1921. Captain Pat Conway, Conductor
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Columbia 15350-D... Recorded on April 11, 1928
Topics: 78rpm, country, old time, 1920s, Bill from Ellerslie's record collection
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Columbia 15350-D... Recorded on April 11, 1928
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Columbia 15095-D... Recorded on April 22, 1926
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Columbia 15095-D... Recorded on April 22, 1926
Topics: 78rpm, country, old time, 1920s, Bill from Ellerslie's record collection
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Victor V-40118... Recorded on April 8, 1928
Topics: 78rpm, country, western, old time, 1920s, Bill from Ellerslie's record collection
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Columbia A2903... Recorded in January of 1920
Topics: 78rpm, popular, 1920s, Bill from Ellerslie's record collection
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Columbia A2903... Recorded in December of 1919
Topics: 78rpm, popular, 1910s, Bill from Ellerslie's record collection
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Columbia A3334... Recorded on October 21, 1920
Topics: 78rpm, popular, big band, 1920s, Bill from Ellerslie's record collection
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Columbia A2895... Recorded on February 11, 1920. Ragtime orchestra with banjo and percussion.
Topics: 78rpm, ragtime, popular, 1920s, Bill from Ellerslie's record collection
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Emerson 1084... Recorded in September of 1919. Ragtime orchestra featuring George Hamilton Green on xylophone.
Topics: 78rpm, ragtime, popular, old time, 1910s, Bill from Ellerslie's record collection
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Columbia A2461... Recorded in September of 1917. Columbia's version of Billy Golden's famous sketch and song.
Topics: 78rpm, country, popular, comedy, old time, 1910s, Bill from Ellerslie's record collection
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Columbia A3421... Recorded on February 25, 1921.
Topics: 78rpm, Jazz, popular, old time, 1920s, Bill from Ellerslie's record collection
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Columbia A3421... Recorded on February 15, 1921.
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Gennet 5030... Recorded on January 18, 1923 in New York. The group's real name was the Original Memphis Five.
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Topics: 78rpm, jazz, popular, old time, 1920s, Bill from Ellerslie's record collection
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Gennet 5030... Recorded on January 18, 1923 in New York. Bailey's Lucky Seven was a creation of Gennet Records and bandleader Sam Lanin. The band was actually the Original Memphis Five.
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Topics: 78rpm, jazz, old time, popular, 1920s, Bill from Ellerslie's record collection
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Brunswick 3292... Recorded in September of 1926
Topics: 78rpm, gospel, vocal quartet, old time, 1920s, Bill from Ellerslie's record collection
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Brunswick 3292... Recorded in October of 1926
Topics: 78rpm, gospel, vocal quartet, old time, 1920s, Bill from Ellerslie's record collection
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Columbia 15005-D... Recorded on September 11, 1924 with Gid Tanner on fiddle.
Topics: 78rpm, country, old time, 1920s, Bill from Ellerslie's record collection
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Columbia 15005-D... Recorded on September 11, 1924
Topics: 78rpm, country, old time, 1920s, Bill from Ellerslie's record collection
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Columbia 15040-D... Recorded on September 11, 1924 with Gid Tanner on fiddle.
Topics: 78rpm, country, old time, 1920s, Bill from Ellerslie's record collection
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Columbia 15040-D... Recorded on September on September 11, 1924. Puckett plays banjo with Gid Tanner on Fiddle. Railroad Bill was a black man who robbed trains in southern Alabama. In 1897 he was spotted eating cheese and crackers on the front porch of a country store by a railroad cop and immediately shot dead.
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Topics: 78rpm, country, old time, 1920s, Bill from Ellerslie's record collection
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Capital 302... Recorded c.1946
Topics: 78rpm, western swing, popular, 1940s, Bill from Ellerslie's record collection
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Capital 302... Recorded c.1946
Topics: 78rpm, western swing, popular, 1940s, Bill from Ellerslie's record collection
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Capital 40276... Recorded c.1949
Topics: 78rpm, western swing, popular, 1940s, Bill from Ellerslie's record collection
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Capital 40276... Recorded c.1949 In the 1940s Tex williams carved a niche for himself singing hit western songs with tobacco themes. He died of lung cancer in 1984.
Topics: 78rpm, western swing, popular, 1940s, Bill from Ellerslie's record collection
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Capital Americana 40054... Recorded c.1947
Topics: 78rpm, western swing, popular, 1940s, Bill from Ellerslie's record collection
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Capital Americana 40054... Recorded c.1947
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78 RPMs and Cylinder Recordings
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Apr 27, 2009
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Apr 27, 2009
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Foy Willing and the Riders of the Purple Sage
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Majestic 6013... Recorded in May of 1947
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Majestic 6025... Recorded in May of 1947. Theme to the 20th Century Fox movie of the same name.
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London W.7045... Western swing from England! Featuring: Wagon Wheels and Headin' For The Last Roundup.
Topics: 78rpm, western swing, country, 1940s, Bill from Ellerslie's record collection
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London W.7045... Western swing from England! Featuring: Home On The Range, Moonlight On The Prairie, and When It's Springtime In The Rockies.
Topics: 78rpm, western swing, country, 1940s, Bill from Ellerslie's record collection
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Mercury 6023-B... Recorded on September 4, 1946 with Bernice Smith on electric guitar.
Topics: 78rpm, country, western swing, 1940s, Bill from Ellerslie's record collection
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Victor V-40054... Recorded on October 22, 1928
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Victor 21433... Recorded on November 30, 1928
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Victor 21433... Recorded on February 14, 1928
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Victor 20846... Recorded on August 4, 1927 in Bristol, Tennessee.
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Victor 20846... Recorded on August 4, 1927 in Bristol, Tennessee. Jimmie Rodgers' first recording has no yodel!
Topics: 78rpm, country, popular, old time, 1920s, Bill from Ellerslie's record collection
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Victor 21574... Recorded on February 14, 1928
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Mercury 6023-A... Recorded on September 4, 1946 with vocals by Rusty Gill. The Prairie Ramblers were originally from Kentucky where they were known as the Kentucky Ramblers. In the 1930s they scored big cowboy hits with vocalist Patsy Montana.
Topics: 78rpm, country, western swing, 1940s, Bill from Ellerslie's record collection
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Victor V-40054... Recorded on February 14, 1928
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Victor 21574... Recorded on June 12, 1928
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No Number... Giveaway record from Gruen Jewelers. Peachtree Cowboys were featured on WSB-TV in Atlanta and one assumes Gruen was their sponser.
Topics: 78rpm, country, western, 1950s, Bill from Ellerslie's record collection
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No Number... Giveaway record from Gruen Jewelers. Peachtree Cowboys were featured on WSB-TV in Atlanta and one assumes Gruen was their sponser.
Topics: 78rpm, country, western, 1950s, Bill from Ellerslie's record collection
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Capital Americana 40014... Recorded c.1947
Topics: 78rpm, jazz, rhythm & blues, popular, 1940s, Bill from Ellerslie's record collection
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Capital Americana 40014... Recorded c.1947
Topics: 78rpm, jazz, rhythm & blues, popular, 1940s, Bill from Ellerslie's record collection
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Decca 24483A... Recorded on December 18, 1947
Topics: 78rpm, jazz, rhythm & blues, popular, 1940s, Bill from Ellerslie's record collection
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Decca 24483B... Recorded on November 24, 1947
Topics: 78rpm, jazz, rhythm & Blues, popular, 1940s, Bill from Ellerslie's record collection
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Decca 18587B... Recorded on July 31, 1941
Topics: 78rpm, jazz, rhythm & blues, popular, 1940s, Bill from Ellerslie's record collection
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Joe Davis 8129... Recorded on March 8, 1945. Members: Walter Thomas, tenor sax; Ben Webster, tenor sax; Milt Yaner, alto sax; Ernest Caceres, baritone sax; Charlie Shavers, trumpet; Slam Stewart, bass; "Crazy" Cole, drums; Billy Taylor, piano.
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Apr 11, 2009
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Rosetta Tharpe, Dependable Boys, Sam Price Trio
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Decca 48106B... Recorded on December 2, 1948
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Topics: 78rpm, gospel, rhythm & blues, popular, 1940s, Bill from Ellerslie's record collection
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Blue 108-A... Dirty Blues
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Blue 108-B... Dirty blues from Billy Mitchell (so get grandma out of the room), skips a few times, sorry to say.
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Decca 48106A... Recorded on December 2, 1948
Topics: 78rpm, gospel, rhythm & blues, popular, 1940s, Bill from Ellerslie's record collection
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Joe Davis 8129... Recorded on March 8, 1945. Members: Walter Thomas, tenor sax; Ben Webster, tenor sax; Milt Yaner, alto sax; Ernest Caceres, baritone sax; Charlie Shavers, trumpet; Slam Stewart, bass; "Crazy" Cole, drums; and Billy Tayler, piano.
Topics: 78rpm, popular, jazz, 1940s, Bill from Ellerslie's record collection
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Victor 20817... Recorded on July 8, 1927
Topics: 78rpm, country, gospel, old time, 1920s, Bill from Ellerslie's record collection
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Victor 20817... Recorded on July 8, 1927
Topics: 78rpm, country, gospel, old time, 1920s, Bill from Ellerslie's record collection
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Vocalion 5194... Recorded in August of 1927
Topics: 78rpm, country, gospel, old time, 1920s, Bill from Ellerslie's record collection
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Vocalion 5194... Recorded in September of 1927. The McCravy brothers were from Laurens, South Carolina.
Topics: 78rpm, country, gospel, old time, 1920s, Bill from Ellerslie's record collection
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Victor 20137... Recorded on August 6, 1926
Topics: 78rpm, popular, old time, 1920s, Bill from Ellerslie's record collection
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Victor 20173... Recorded c.1926
Topics: 78rpm, popular, vocal quartet, old time, 1920s, Bill from Ellerslie's record collection
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Okeh 41068... Recorded on May 25, 1928
Topics: 78rpm, Hawaiian, old time, 1920s, Bill from Ellerslie's record collection
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Okeh 41068... Recorded on May 28, 1928
Topics: 78rpm, Hawaiian, old time, 1920s, Bill from Ellerslie's record collection
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Vocalion 5192... Recorded in September of 1927
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Columbia 15316-D... Recorded on November 9, 1927. Racist comedy skit in the tradition of Amos & Andy and Moran & Mack. Fake black comedy hits a whole new level of weirdness when the preacher refers to Malinda as a "black Ethiopean vampire"!
Topics: 78rpm, comedy, old time, 1920s, Bill from Ellerslie's record collection
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Columbia 15316-D... Recorded on November 9, 1927. Green B. Adair is usually mis-labled as a country act due to the records being released as part of the Columbia 15000 country series. They're actually fairly racist comedy skits in the vein of Amos & Andy or Moran & Mack. Lucy Buys Insurance does have a great punchline though.
Topics: 78rpm, comedy, old time, 1920s, Bill from Ellerslie's record collection
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Victor 21548... Recorded on July 5, 1928. A ballad about a young man facing trial and his fiance who (somehow) manages to get him aquitted through an impassioned speech
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Brunswick 3620... Recorded in July of 1927
Topics: 78rpm, popular, Hawaiian, old time, 1920s, Bill from Ellerslie's record collection
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Brunswick 3620... Recorded in July of 1927
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Victor 20173... Recorded c.1926. An orchestra accompanies the Shannon Quartette on this odd version of the old standard.
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Columbia A2809... Recorded in April of 1919
Topics: 78rpm, ragtime, popular, old time, 1910s, Bill from Ellerslie's record collection
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Columbia A2809... Recorded in April of 1919
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Brunswick 2843... Recorded on February 17, 1925
Topics: 78rpm, jazz, popular, old time, 1920s, Bill from Ellerslie's record collection
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Brunswick 2843... Recorded on February 17, 1925. Gene Rodemich and his Orchestra were from St. Louis. Between 1929 and 1934 they were featured in over a hundred cartoon shorts produced by Van Beuren, which isn't hard to imagine after listening to their lively version of this popular jazz standard.
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Vocalion 03028... Recorded on November 25, 1936
Topics: 78rpm, country, gospel, old time, 1920s, Bill from Ellerslie's record collection
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Vocalion 03028... Recorded on November 25, 1936
Topics: 78rpm, country, gospel, old time, 1930s, Bill from Ellerslie's record collection
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Brunswick 172... Recorded in May Of 1927
Topics: 78rpm, country, gospel, old time, 1920s, Bill from Ellerslie's record collection
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Brunswick 357 Recorded in June of 1929
Topics: 78rpm, country, gospel, old time, 1920s, Bill from Ellerslie's record collection
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Brunswick 172 Recorded in May of 1927
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Vocalion 5020... Recorded on October 21, 1926. Skips a few times
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Victor 23536 Recorded on November 22, 1930
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Brunswick 357 Recorded in June of 1929. Sacred singing with organ.
Topics: 78rpm, country, gospel, old time, 1920s, Bill from Ellerslie's record collection
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Columbia 15151-D Recorded on April 5, 1927
Topics: 78rpm, country, comedy, novelty, old time, 1920s, Bill from Ellerslie's record collection
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Columbia 15120-D Recorded on November 4, 1926
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Paramount 3197... Recorded in October of 1929. Country version of the Christmas caroll with an emphasis on steel guitar.
Topics: 78rpm, country, christmas, old time, 1920s, Bill from Ellerslie's record collection
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Paramount 3197... Recorded in October of 1929. A mostly instrumental (with some humming) country version of the Christmas carrol.
Topics: 78rpm, country, christmas, old time, 1920s, Bill from Ellerslie's record collection
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Paramount 3197... Recorded in October of 1929. A mostly instrumental (with some humming) country version of the Christmas carrol, featuring steel guitar.
Topics: 78rpm, country, Christmas, old time, 1920s, Bill from Ellerslie's record collection
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Vocalion 5020... Recorded on October 23, 1926. Not Really a song but facinating anyway. Al Hopkins narrates this novelty record while Charles Bowman makes the sound effects with his fiddle, immitating a train and a donkey rather well! The Hillbillies were also known as Al Hopkins and His Buckle Busters on some recordings.
Topics: 78rpm, country, novelty, old time, 1920s, Bill from Ellerslie's record collection
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Columbia 15332-D... Recorded on October 24, 1928. Not officially a Skillet Lickers record, this comedic skit was released with a cast list instead of a credited artist. This is probably due to the absence of Riley Puckett and the fact that none of the rest of the group play at the same time. Tanner plays a wild fiddle alone and sings all the musical parts himself. The rest of the group either speak or play background music.
Topics: 78rpm, country, comedy, novelty, old time, 1920s, Bill from Ellerslie's record collection
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Columbia 107-D... Recorded on March 3, 1924, in New York City, with Gid Tanner playing fiddle and howling like a dog! From Riley Puckett's inaugural recording session, a cover of fellow Georgian Fiddlin' John Carson's big hit record. This version became one of the biggest country releases of 1924.
Topics: 78rpm, country, old time, 1920s, Bill from Ellerslie's record collection
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Columbia 107-D... Recorded on March 3, 1924 in New York City. Three firsts: Riley Puckett's first recording session, Columbia's first country record, and the first recorded country yodel. It beat out Jimmie Rodgers by 3 1/2 years!
Topics: 78rpm, country, old time, 1920s, Bill from Ellerslie's record collection
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Columbia 15125-D... Recorded on November 6, 1926. Here, Puckett describes a particularly dangerous and harrowing train trip as he tries to get back home.
Topics: 78rpm, country, old time, 1920s, Bill from Ellerslie's record collection
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Columbia 15148-D... Recorded on April 2,1927. A first-person plea by a child to the warden for the parole of his jailbird father.
Topics: 78rpm, country, folk, old time, 1920s, Bill from Ellerslie's record collection
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Columbia 15429-D... Recorded on March 26, 1929. A reworking of The Wagoner's Lad, where the focus is placed on preserving bachelorhood, while adding a yodel.
Topics: 78rpm, country, old time, 1920s, Bill from Ellerslie's record collection
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Columbia 15151-D Recorded on April 5, 1927. Chris Allen Bouchillon was from Greenville, South Carolina. On this and subsequent recordings, guitar is played by his brother Uris.
Topics: 78rpm, country, novelty, comedy, old time, 1920s, Bill from Ellerslie's record collection
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Columbia 15120-D Recorded on November 4, 1926. Bouchillon was, by all accounts, a horrendous singer. To compensate, he invented his own "talking style" of singing and scored some big hits.
Topics: 78rpm, country, novelty, comedy, old time, 1920s, Bill from Ellerslie's record collection
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